My brother Paul has decided to stay in Yendi for another week to help us with the roofing project. If he stays Red, the part time driver stays and Red is a great help. He knows everyone and where to buy everything!
The mason finished his part of the work this afternoon. He will still have to come back after the roof is on and the ceiling is repaired to do the finish plastering but at least he is finished for now. He is going back to Tamale to finish the job he was doing when we called him. It was very kind of him to stop the job in Tamale to help us.
Abochi the carpenter stopped by this afternoon just to see how things were coming along. I hoped that he would start working on the rafters tomorrow but he said that he wanted the gutters to be cleaned out before he started working. The gutters are made like a big cement trough on all sides of the house. They have down spouts to catch the rain water and divert it into the reservoir. It is actually a very clever design. After the mason finished he left a lot of rubble in the gutters. I don’t really think that the dirty gutters are the reason Abochi does not want to start until Wednesday. Tomorrow is a national holiday, Ghana’s Independence Day and I think he wants the day off because it is a holiday and it would be difficult to get his crew together on a holiday.
Mr. Iddrisu and Nazo started putting the wood treatment on the 2×6’s this morning. We hired a couple young men to help them so their work would not be so hard. They started off using a back pack sprayer to spray the wood treatment on the boards but it was not very long before the sprayers were plugged and useless. They went back to painting it on. It is a very time consuming job. They got about ¼ of the wood treated.
We also hired Nazo’s wife and daughter again today to help Meri and Amama clean the house. It is filthy! I am still amazed at the mess! Today the ladies took all the dishes out of the kitchen and out of the counters to wash. They washed them outside on the patio. After they were washed we put them in the guest round house. We did not want to risk having to re-wash them.
We are tired but happy that the work is moving on.
Thank you for your love, prayers and support.
In His Service,
Steve, Kandie and Paul
